n. The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; presentation.n. Anything presented or exhibited; appearance; likeness; representation.n. In law: A statement by a grand jury of an offense from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them: as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like, on which the prosecuting officer must afterward frame an indictment, before the party presented can be put to answer it. In a more general sense, presentment comprehends inquisitions of office and indictments.n. The formal information to the lord, by the tenants of a manor, of anything done out of court.n. The presenting of a bill of exchange to the drawee for acceptance, or of a bill to the acceptor, or of a note to the maker, for payment.n. Eccles., a formal complaint made by the authorities of a parish to the bishop or archdeacon at his visitation.